The Beatles' Story

The Beatles' Story
Music Album of The Beatles
Publication (s)	November 23, 1964 ( US )
Label (s)	Capitol Records , EMI , Universal Music
Format (s)	LP , CD
Genre (s)	language
Title (number)	17th
running time	49 min 22 s
production	Gary Usher / Roger Christian
Studio (s)	Capitol Records Building
chronology Something New (1964) The Beatles' Story Beatles '65 (1964)

The Beatles' Story ( English The Story of the Beatles ) is the sixth album released in the USA by the British band The Beatles . It was released on November 23, 1964. It is the fourth album by the Beatles, which was distributed by Capitol Records .

Emergence

The Beatles, concert at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, September 11, 1964

In December 1963, Brian Epstein , the Beatles' manager, signed a recording deal with Capitol Records for future Beatles releases. On December 26, 1963, the Beatles' first single, I Want to Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There, was released on Capitol Records. The single rose to number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 18, 1964 . Two weeks later, I Want to Hold Your Hand topped the charts. It was the commercial breakthrough for the Beatles in the United States. By November 1964, three American Beatles albums had reached number one position, two more albums each remained in second place because another Beatles album was already in first place in the USA. There were also six number one single hits in the US up to and including I Feel Fine . From February 7 to February 22, 1964, the Beatles went on a promotional tour of the United States. On February 9, 1964, the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show . 73.7 million viewers on the television set followed the live broadcast. The Beatles' first concert in the USA took place on February 11, 1964, in the Washington Coliseum ( Washington, DC ), the second concert took place in New York's Carnegie Hall , and the first US concert followed from August 19 to September 20, 1964. Tour of the Beatles.

To mark the one-year anniversary, Capitol Records in the US planned to release the recorded Hollywood Bowl concert of August 23, 1964 as a live album, but the project was dropped due to the negative attitude of George Martin and the Beatles. Another plan of the record company was to release a greatest hits double album, Best of the Beatles , but this project did not go through either. Instead, a kind of documentary double album was produced on which the previous story of the Beatles is told by John Babcock, Roger Christian and Al Wiman. The album also contains interviews with the individual Beatles, a Beatles medley produced especially for the album and a short excerpt from the live version of the song Twist and Shout , which was recorded on August 23, 1964 during the Hollywood Bowl concert. The instrumental music to be heard in the background was played by the Hollywood Strings .

The Beatles' first interview album was released on September 24, 1964 with the title Hear The Beatles Tell All (catalog number: VeeJay PRO 30) by Vee-Jay Records . It contains interviews from the Beatles with Dave Hull and from John Lennon with Jim Steck. The background music to be heard on the album comes from Lou Adler. While Hear The Beatles Tell All could not place in the US charts, The Beatles' Story reached number seven.

The Beatles' Story was published in a mono and a stereo version.

The double album The Beatles' Story was also released in Canada and Japan (August 5, 1966). In Chile , the double album was released under the title Historia de Los Beatles in 1965.

Cover design

The cover photos are from Joe Covello.

Track list

page 1

1. On Stage with the Beatles - 1:03
2. How Beatlemania Began - 1:20
3. Beatlemania in Action - 1:25
4. Man Behind the Beatles - Brian Epstein - 2:47
5. John Lennon - 5:50
6. Who's a Millionaire? - 0:39

Page 2

1. Beatles Will Be Beatles - 7:28
2. Man Behind the Music - George Martin - 1:04
3. George Harrison - 4:46

Page 3

1. A Hard Day's Night - Their First Movie - 3:08
2. Paul McCartney - 2:45
3. Sneaky Haircuts and More About Paul - 3:29

page 4

1. The Beatles Look at Life - 2:05
2. 'Victims' of Beatlemania - 1:10
3. Beatles Medley - 3:58
   1. Things We Said Today
   2. I'm happy just to dance with you
   3. Little Child
   4. Long Tall Sally
   5. She loves you
4. Ringo Starr - 6:24
5. Liverpool and All the World! - 1:05

Chart positions of the album

album		Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
Type	title	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
Interviews	The Beatles' Story (double album)	-	Nov 23, 1964	-	nv	7th	nv	-	Capitol STBO 2222 (stereo)	-

Republication

In January 2014, The Beatles' Story was released as part of The US Albums CD box , it did not appear separately.

literature

• Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Chronicle . ISBN 0-600-61001-2 .
• Neville Stannard: The Long & Winding Road , ISBN 0-907-08096-0 .
• Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head , ISBN 978-0-099-52679-7 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide , ISBN 978-3-9809137-1-3 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide II , ISBN 3-9809137-2-4 .

Web links

• Review of The Beatles' Story
• Overview of the US albums
• Further overview of the US albums

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruce Spizer: The Beatles Are Coming! 498 Productions, New Orleans 2003, ISBN 0-9662649-8-3 , pp. 82 f.
2. ↑ Hear The Beatles Tell All
3. ↑ History of Vee-Jay Records  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Canadian version: The Beatles' Story
5. ↑ Japanese version: The Beatles' Story
6. ↑ Chilean Version- The Beatles' Story
7. ↑ Cover of the album The Beatles' Story